CONTRIBUTOR:

Nicholas Kawa

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Anthropology

INSTITUTION:

Ohio State University

BIOGRAPHY:

Nicholas C. Kawa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Ohio State University and a core faculty member of OSU’s Initiative for Food and Agricultural Transformation (InFACT). His research examines how human-produced excesses—bodily, agricultural, and industrial—have come to shape the ecologies of the Anthropocene, both in Amazonia and the American Midwest. His most recent project, funded by a post-PhD grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, specifically investigates the use and management of biosolids (i.e. treated sanitation waste) for agricultural production and urban gardening in the contemporary US. His research has appeared in such scholarly journals as American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Human Ecology, and Human Organization as well as popular outlets including NPR, The Atlantic, The Conversation, and SAPIENS. He is author of the book Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests.